Automatic dump for carrier systems



June 3, 1930. L. B. H. BIXLER ET! AL 1,761,188

AUTOMATIC DUMP FOR CARRIER SYSTEMS Fil ed Feb. 3, 1928 40m JOINTINVENTORS W ATTORNEY Patented June 3, 1930 i UNITED STATES L. B. HENRYBIXLER AND WILLIAM L. BIXLER, or rnnsuo, o Lrr onnIA AUTOMATIC DUMP nonoAnmER'sYsrnMs" Application filed February 3, 1928. Serial-"No; 251,710.

Our invention relates to an automatic dump, or a device forautomatically depositing at a fixed station garment holders which havebeen transported to said station by a moving cable or rope. Theapplicants herein are the patentees of a garment conveyor for whichLetters Patent of the United States No. 1,645,315 was issued October 11,1927, and are the inventors of the pick-offs for conveyio or systemsdescribed in pending application liled May 5, 1924, Serial Number711,383. The invention described herein is a part of the system forconveying garments from place to place described in said patent and saidapplication. The objects we have accomplished in our automatic dump is asimple, effective and economical device for unloading garments ormerchandise suspended by a hook from a moving belt, line, rope or cablewhich is adapted to transport the same.

Other objects will be hereinafter disclosed.

These objects are accomplished by means of the device herein describedand illustrated on the accompanying drawing in which Fig.

1 is aside view of a portionof a conveyor system showing the features ofour invention. Fig. 2 shows a garment hanger which can be used inconnection with the device and is adapted to be conveyed and depositedat the station desired.

As shown in the drawing a beam 8 has depending straps 9 and 10 fromwhich a rigid bar 11 is suspended. Beam 8 can be a portion of theceiling or roof ofthe building in which the system is installed or otherindependent support. The length of the straps 9 and 10 should be suchthat bar 11 is held in an inclined position. The upper end of bar 11carries a pulley 12which is positioned so that 40 the upper portion ofits periphery is aligned with, or slightly above the plane of the uppersurface of bar 11. At the lower end of bar 11 is a pulley 14 positionedso that the lower portion of the periphery is below the plane of theupper surface of the bar 11. An endless line, cable, belt or rope 15which is adapted to travel in the direction shown by the arrows 16, iscarried on theupper portion of theperiphery of pulley 12, and around thelower portion of the periphery of pulley 14. It will be noted that therope 15 in its line of travel will-pass along a line either on a levelwith, or slightly above the plane offthe highest front of the uppersurface of bar 11, and will in its line of travel therefrom drop belowthe plane of such upper surface. The rope should travel close to theside of bar 11. A garment holder 18, having a book 19 cooperates withthe rope and bar as follows: Hook 19 is engaged with rope at a point inits line of travel before it reaches the bar, and is carried with therope as the rope moves. When the rope reaches the PATENT? OFFICE I topplane of the bar, the hook is carried over the top of the bar anddeposited and left thereon as the rope then drops below the uppersurface of the bar leaving the hook hanging on the bar. The slope of thebar can be sufiicient to cause the garment holder to slide to the lowerend thereof where it will be stopped by a stop 9", this stop being thelower end of strap 9, or if the bar is positioned near horizontally thegarment holder can remain in the position where it is deposited by themovingrope until another garment holder is deposited adjacent theretoand moves it forward on the bar. A plurality of said arment holders canthus be deposited on the ar.

A pulley 25 is positioned above pulley 14 for the purpose of guiding therope beyond bar 11, this being optional in construction. Strap 10 hasthe lower end bent in the shape of an L or hook so that the main uprightportion of the strap can be held a short distance from the side of bar11, and the support is under the bar, thus allowing the open portion ofthe hook to pass over that support. It is preferable that the pulleys 12and 14 be positioned so that the rope will pass along the same side ofbar 11 occupied by depending strap 10, and that when the hangers arehooked over the rope the open portion of the hook will be on the side ofthe bar on which the rope is travelling.

Having described our invention we claim:

1. In combination with a carrier system having an endless moving ropeand means for supporting the load to be carried consisting of a plainopen hook adapted to loosely engage the rope, an automatic dumpcomprising a fixed bar positioned so that the entire top surface of thebar forms an incline sloping in the direction of the travel of themoving rope, the path of travel of said rope being adjacent to, anddiagonally across a side face of the bar from the plane of the topsurface of said bar.

2. An automatic dump for a carrier system having an endless rope andindependent carriage means adapted to be supported on said rope by aplain open hook, consisting of a fixed bar positioned adjacent to thepath of travel of the rope so that the entire top surface of the barslopes downward, the path of travel of the rope being diagonally acrossthe side face of the bar starting at a point aligned with the uppersurface of said bar.

WILLIAM L. BIXLER. L. B. HENRY BIXLER.

